女性史研究：１６－１７世紀イングランド The Historical Study of Women 1500-1700

Capern, Amanda L.

Palgrave Macmillan（2008/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 444 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780333662687
• DDC分類 305.4

基本説明

Covers topics such as ideas about women, law and private life, women and religion, women's secular and political writing and women and the English Civil War.

Full Description

The Historical Study of Womendetailed survey of the history and historiography of early-modern women in England during the Reformation and Civil War. Covering a wide variety of key topics, the book explores the history of ideas, women's rights, law and criminality, witchcraft, queenship, courtship and marriage, family and the household, childrearing and the world of property-ownership and work. It also provides valuable insights into the development of women's writing and political participation in the period.Capern treats women's history as inherently political and offers a new interpretative framework for understanding the history of femininity in early-modern England. Clear and comprehensive, this is significant reading for anyone interested in early-modern English history.

Contents

Acknowledgements.- IntroductionWoman: Intellectual Foundations.- Querelle des Femmes.- Femininity: Prescription, Rhetoric and Context.- Law and Private Life.- Politics.- Religion and Civil War.- Education and Women's Writing.- Conclusion: Femininity Transformed.- Index.